大学英语3试卷及答案

⼤学英语3试卷及答案

⼤学英语3

⼀、单项选择题(本⼤题共20⼩题，每⼩题3分，共60分)1）My son failed to come back home last night. This morning the police came to our house and ___my worst fears that hewas injured in a car accident.

A. advocated

B. confirmed

C. insured

D. promised

2) Parks and open spaces are essential to the quality of life in dense ________ areas such as New York City.

A. agricultural

B. rural

C. suburban

D. urban

3) I just wonder if ________ ever ________ that you could have your own enterprise and run it yourself when you were still astudent.

A. it … occurred

B. you … occurred to it

C. it … occurred to you

D. you… occurred

4) Since this factory adopted the newly-invented managerial system, they have increased their annual income by alarge________.

A. emerge

B. merge

C. part

D. margin

5) She picked up the receiver card,________ asking the caller to hold on, went off to tell Jack that he was wanted on thephone.

A. without so much as

B. without so many as

C. with so much as

D. with so many as

6) Some epidemics that happen in this modern world are ________ by environmental pollution rather than natural disasters.

A. brought about

B. brought back

C. brought forwardD. brought in

7) The initials VAT stand________ Value Add Tax, which is a type of tax pain by the person who buys the goods or services.

A. for

B. /

C. up

D. at

8) The villa__ grand design and artistic atmosphere can cost any buyer more than 10 million Yuan, so you’d better give it asecond thought before you make

up your mind.

A. unique

B. featuring

C. lighting

D. blowing

9) Uncle Tom is never a/an__ guy. Unlike what they said about him, he’s always generous and kind to others.

A. friend

B. friendly

C. unfriend

D. unfriendly

10) Experts suggest that students should consult dictionaries when they want to learn a new English word rather than________ dictionaries.

A. electronic

B. electrical

C. electricity

D. electrician

11）Compared to the urban areas of New York, the countryside is a preferable place to live as it is more ________ and lesspolluted.

A. tranquil

B. Crowded

C. developed

D. primitive

12) The police________ the entrance to the building with road blocks so that no one can be allowed to enter orexit.

A. pasted

B. barricaded

C. barrier

D. sideways

13) The landlord________ the supply of electricity and water since his two poor tenants hadn’t paid him a penny for months.

A. cut backB. cut in

C. cut down

D. cut off

14) Pupils have to receive education in other cities before new schools are _______ at a new place in about 2years.

A. put up

B. put up with

C. put off

D. put down

15）She wishes her parents to________ of her boy friend.

A. accept

B. approve

C. admit

D. permit

16) I________ the fundamental goodness of human nature.

A. am believing

B. believe

C. am believing in

D. believe in

17) Poets ant artists often draw their________from nature.

A. inspection

B.inspiration

C. imagination

D. imitation

18) TV, properly used, can________a child’s imagination.

A.stimulate

B.cause

C. arise

D. encourage

19) A good deal of the________ for their success must go to John Francis, the captain.

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B.credit

C. respect

D. reputation

20) His new shoes were too________ because he bought the wrong size.

A.freeB.loosened

C. loose

D. lost

⼆、阅读理解（共5⼩题，每题4分，共计20分）Many people who are rich are also well-known. Ted Sweeney was an exception to this rule.

His family moved to San Francisco from Los Angeles when he was one month old. That’s where he grew up. At the age ofseventee n he was hit by a train. Although he was seriously hurt, the railroad paid him $ 25,000. Instead of going to collegehe bought a small store. Six months later the government bought his land to build a new highway. He sold it for $ 95,000.

With this money he moved to Detroit. He started a small company that made parts for the car

manufacturers. It was very successful that by the time he was 23 he was a millionaire. When he was 24 he got married. Heand his wife had three daughters in the next five years. By the time he was 30 he had over ten million dollars.

Then tragedy struck. He was involved in a traffic accident. He did not die but his wife and

daughters did. Six months later he sold everything he owned and put his money in stocks. Ted then moved to New York. Helived for the next forty years in a one-room apartment.

He spent most of his days wandering through the city looking in garbage cans for food. He

never worked. He rarely talked to anyone except himself. Most people were afraid of him. His clothes were always old anddirty.

Shortly before he died he moved back to Los Angeles. After spending two weeks there he

was put in jail because he had no money and no job. City workers tried to help him. They offered him work but he would notwok. Towards the end he would not talk to anyone at all.